A Wonder-book for Boys and Girls
The American novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne was a friend of the poet Longfellow and had much earlier suggested they collaborate on a story for children based on the legend of Pandora's Box, but this never materialized.
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-85715-930-1
- EAN: 9781857159301
- Produktnummer: 2591016
- Verlag: Random House UK
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1994
- Seitenangabe: 288 S.
- Masse: H21.2 cm x B16.1 cm x D2.2 cm 522 g
- Abbildungen: Ill.
- Gewicht: 522
Über den Autor
Nathaniel Hawthorne was born on 4th July 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts. One of his descendants was John Hathorne who presided over the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. Hawthorne's father died when he was four years old. He was educated at Bowdoin College where he became friends with the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. He published his first novel, Fanshawe in 1828 and after this his stories began to appear in periodicals. He in 1842 and he and his wife Sophia went on to have three children. He published his most famous work, The Scarlet Letter, in 1850, and in that same year he became friends with the novelist Herman Melville. Melville later dedicated Moby Dick to Hawthorne. Between 1853 and 1860 he lived in Liverpool in England while he was working as an American consul, and then in Italy, before returning to his home in Concord, Massachusetts. Nathaniel Hawthorne died on 19th May 1864.
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